Jack of Newbury: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition - Brossura

Deloney, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 1554812100 ISBN 13: 9781554812103

Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Jack of Newbury is an incisive yet remarkably entertaining work of narrative prose—and one that was extremely popular when it was published in the 1590s. The title character, an apprentice weaver, marries his former master’s wife, expands her cloth business into an enormous enterprise, refuses Henry VIII’s offer of a knighthood, and confronts Cardinal Wolsey; meanwhile, his servants find themselves in a range of comic situations. While amusing, Jack of Newbury also carries a serious and subversive political message: as Peter C. Herman puts it in his introduction to the volume, “the truly valuable subjects” in Deloney’s narrative “are not the nobility, but the merchant class.” The range of contextual materials included with this edition help to set it in the broader context of its economic and political as well as literary culture.

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L'autore:

Peter C. Herman, Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, is the author or editor of many books, including The New Milton Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England (Cornell University Press, 2010), and Destabilizing Milton: Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Incertitude (Palgrave, 2005).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Broadview Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1554812100
• ISBN 13: 9781554812103
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 174
• Redattore: Herman Peter C.